Corrupt government, conspiracy, new world order, no future.

Not overly impressed with economists, as I read Milton and Rose Freidmans� �Free To Choose,� I wondered why I was bothering. Written in a way meant to inform, or more accurately open the eyes of Americans to a future of eroding freedom, it was no different than any other typical approach of cloistered experts. They select a happening -- analyze, hypothesize and advertise, but never energize. If there is any useful information we the forsaken could use to fight back ... tell it to us. We are well aware of what�s happening to us. We don�t want to adjust, we want to restore.

The manner of the books presentation got me to thinking of a national tv show ... �Crossfire.� Two hosts, one with a label �conservative� and the other with the label �liberal,� along with their regularly invited actors pretend to argue an issue. At some point in the show it becomes quite obvious they are only attempting to outshine one anothers debating skills. The subject matter becomes secondary. Without concern for beneficial communication they talk over one another, canceling each others words. They are reveling in their world ... a world of entertainment. The original topic was just a stage prop.

Working through what I considered as inconsequential to our immediate decaying dilemma, I extrapolated that which supports my view for direct action now. Though the Freidmans� are aware of our disintegrating system ... lamenting serves no purpose.

Quote -- �Not even the most autocratic head of a family can control every act of another. No sizable army can really be run entirely by command. Commands must be supplemented by voluntary cooperation -- a less obvious and more subtle, but far more fundamental technique of coordinating activities of large numbers of people.�

Commands? More subtle? Coordinating activities? The very devises we have been scrutinizing. The very encumbrances we must do away with.

No matter what corridor of life you may venture into ... the subtle presence and capabilities of the �Chip� are present. �Subtle control� is implemented by software programming. �Voluntary cooperation� is accomplished when we do what the program instructs us to do. Understand, I�m not eluding to engineering or scientific use. I�m referring to �Push Hamburger Workers� such as, fast food employees, checkers at the supermarket, bank tellers, someone you may be calling to correct an invoice, every button pusher entering endless data. They are all working without the slightest instinct or incentive to correct a wrong. I�m sure they have challenged your senses one time or another.

When one software company controls more than 80% of the market, the world is channeled to a single mindset ... definitely not individual ingenuity. When Henry Ford painted all his cars black, black was your color �like it or not.�

The story of U.S. industrial growth is unparalleled ... �a miracle.� It proved profitable to the masses without hindering those capable of attaining immense wealth as a result. �Not so today.� While conservative and liberal fight over their relationships, or nonrelationship with power, common folk become an insignificant part of the equation.

Scotsman, Adam Smith author of �The Wealth Of Nations,� the father of modern economics -- theorized ... �A market system benefited freedom of individuals.� He imagined both parties to an exchange can benefit, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary. The idea being, no exchange will take place unless both parties benefit.

Are we benefiting from such a notion? We could. Not too long ago management had some interactive concern for the lowly but still important worker. The word downsizing had yet to be coined. At that time the worker had some sort of free market where he could sell his abilities ... with both parties benefiting. What has changed today? Well -- it�s come to the point where just getting and keeping a job is an accomplishment.

The combination of economic and political power (fast becoming indistinguishable), is a sure recipe for tyranny. Political debates, uncovering infiltration into our government by foreign resources, are only side shows to divert our learning curve. If we were savvy to the real truth, as it affects our daily lives, our interest and most likely our rage would become apparent. Right now the polling statistics are indicating we are so tired of it all, �we no longer give a damn.� It�s not true. We�re just too busy trying to survive under altered expectations to fight back against the time worn show in Washington.

�Smith and Jefferson� saw concentrated government power as a great danger to the ordinary man. They realized, the protection of the citizen against tyranny of government was a perpetual need. Emphasis on the responsibility of the individual for his own fate, was gradually exchanged to emphasis on the individual as a pawn buffeted by forces beyond his control. Was that progression installed and perpetuated by a power greater than those elected to preserve and defend our constitution?

We have yet to reach the point of no return. We are still free as a people to choose whether we shall continue speeding down the road (as said by Fredrick Hayek in his profound and influential book) ... �The Road To Serfdom.�

Will our golden age come to an end in a relapse into tyranny and misery that has always been, and exists today, as �the state of most mankind�? Shall we use our wisdom and courage to change our course, draw from experience, and ultimatley benefit from a rebirth of freedom?

This of course would entail reducing government to the barest minimum as it was originally meant to be. The more massive the federal government, the more extensive is power�s ability to influence it, the less our government affiliates with us.

The present characteristics of our mystical government no longer resemble its founders intent. Government has finally managed to nullify the very people it was invented for. There is time to act and reinstate what is being lost to history. Our Declaration of Independence belongs to us alone. Power must never be allowed to trash it.

This can�t be accomplished by falling prey to political fairy tales created by an aristocracy we once trusted to be our government. We must not be mesmerized by specifically selected economists assuring us of success ... if we would only believe them. I have yet to learn of an economist that even remotely suggests that we the people, �America�s true board of directors,� must overhaul our corporation �The United States of America.� At best, some honestly define an array of problems but never the total picture. We always remain a part of their equations. We are not a part of an equation. We are the equation. The model for America, was designed as a new country to be scrupulously run for the ultimate benefit of its citizens.

Reading on I find additional support for my approach to where we are heading ... a people devastated by a power encircled government. �It makes a vast difference what the mix is (rules, origination, acceptance), whether voluntary exchange is primarily a clandestine activity that flourishes because of rigidities imposed by a dominant command element ... or whether voluntary exchange is the foremost principal of an organization. A predominantly voluntary exchange economy, indeed has the potential to promote both ... prosperity and freedom.� An astute observation. How can it be reinstituted?

Scholarly analysis abounds -- meaningful efforts to attack and diligently expose coercive programs are almost none existent. Sure it makes a vast difference as to what the mix is, and just as assuredly, �the direction power is taking� keeps eliminating us from being a significant part of the mix. That is the real threat.

�In other industrialized countries like the United States, the major productive resource is personal productive capacity (what economists call human capitol). Approximately three quarters of all income generated in the U.S. through market transactions takes the form of employee compensation (wages).�

�The accumulation of physical capitol -- factories producing our everyday products, office buildings, shopping centers, mines, highways, airports, trucks, planes, power plants, on and on, has played an essential role in our economic growth. Without that accumulation (mix), the economic growth we have enjoyed could never have occurred.�

How can one reject that fact? Why have we let it slip through our fingers? Our factories, once producing an abundance of every day products, have been disappearing. Highways and bridges are falling into dangerous disrepair. Car production is under constant pressure from foreign markets. Does this not resemble a forfeiture of greatness ... a peoples greatness. Our government agrees with me when they proclaim �the chip is our future.� They�ll never let on to the truth, the word �our,� is not a mix of us and them. �Truth� is becoming almost impossible to identify.

One truth must remain untarnished. Our government was structured so that all might trust its design, and believe it protected us not only against a war of bullets, but just as important a war directed at us by power�s tyranny.

In the beginning -- beset by tyranny -- we fought to be free of power�s intent to control our future. �We won.�

That! is what sparked us and eventually led to our becoming the world�s leader ... �a super power.� The direction we are now being forced into can only result in our becoming ... a �power contrived super chip.� In an era when the laws governing intellectual property (such as software) have no real significance, that title will carry no prestige. Most likely the outcome will be -- some will become �super men� while the masses will just become �superintendents� ... relegated to janitorial duties.

Government is no longer a co-worker in our society. The more our government employees hobnob with power, and are seduced by its offerings, the more effectively power insulates them from us.

Our revolutionary form of government was invented to support the objectives of the common people. Common people were meant to participate with the public servants they hired to perform specific tasks. We never anticipated the extent to which power would gain such firm control over the process. Freedom, a fragile concept, can disappear vastly quicker than it was attained. In this atmosphere of turmoil, specific coercion against us is extremely difficult to pinpoint. A general concept becomes more important.

We are losing a way of life, losing the advantage that made it possible. Our own government, denying culpability for the loss, now choreographs a show of concern. For conservatives the punch-line is �less government.� The pitch is, less restrictive government policies can be an improvement. Truth is, it will always be put off into the future. For now the best pitch is headlined as �the bridge to the future.� A headline they never intend to be defined.

Liberals, not willing to be left in the cold also claim a bridge to the future ... also amorphous in concept. There is no proven track record to assure us that either bridge builder has a qualified contractor�s license. They would do us a far better service if they concentrated on the bridges of yesterday and start repairing them to our satisfaction.

Both parties elude to their programs for job creation. �When?� -- �the twenty first century� of course. All seem to agree, for the remainder of this century nothing will change, misery must run its course. Programming and retraining us is time consuming, and they need all the time they can talk us into. What kind of programming? Computer dependency must now be accepted as an inspired substitute for our historic manufacturing based society?

Should we fault liberals? Should we fault conservatives? Should we fault those who deliberately walk a middle of the road line? Should we fault the system? Something or someone is at fault, otherwise why the discontent why the shouting? If we keep referring to past gains that have been lost and they keep referring to a resultant better future ... everyone must be talking about or admitting to the mess that exists right now. Who and what could possibly be responsible? Try ... �power�s agenda.� Try ... �government wrenched from our control.�

The shift from serving our interests to that of �performing for power� has become sinfully transparent. No matter how tactfully, argumentatively, or menacingly we inform our elected we want the export of decent paying jobs to stop, the answer invariably is hard to swallow double-talk.

The Freidmans� construct an argument that propelled my sensibilities through the roof. It was a rebuttal to a national security argument saying �we must have a solid manufacturing base.�

The rebuttal is, �Suppose the improbable did happen ... war. We could stockpile (imported) steel. That�s easy, since steel takes up relatively little space and is not perishable.� Another rebuttal was about infant industries, claiming �the infant industry argument is a smoke screen. The so called infants never grow up.�

Perhaps if we played the sterile game of statistics those suppositions are defendable? That would require emotional and common sense detachment from acceptable construct. We would have to become immune, and agree to accept the next concept -- so what if our mega-industries employing tens of thousands are gone -- we could still win the war. The obvious thought that comes to mind has to be �win what for who?� We would also have to agree that fledglings never grow up, and ignore �Microsoft� the prime player in our future life. What is being suggested has no connection to social responsibility. It�s an economists game plan, projecting a winning scenario based on sterile computations. Though �Freedom of Choice� is the title, it fails to confirm that we are losing our freedoms and above all, our ability to choose is decaying before our eyes. We don�t need statistical game theories. We need human rules, addressing human needs, embracing human potential.

Raucous argument from both sides of the aisle have become so dishonestly abstract, they merge into a fury of indistinguishable babble. Though each declares to have the

formula for salvation, present elaborate charts and figures to back it up, they are failing to permanently impress us and they know it.

In desperation, grasping at straws to appear as if they are on our side, bogus concepts come at us a dime a dozen. �Term limits� ... will never fly. �Campaign contributions� ... will never be untangled. �Foreign lobbyists� ... will never disappear. �New style job creation� ... will never supplant the damage industrial downsizing created. �Our deceptively reinvented government� ... will never return to the aspirations embodied in our Declaration of Independence. Only a will �stronger than theirs� can overcome. Then freedom to choose may once again be ... �our choice.�

In one chapter, �The Anatomy Of Crises� -- dealing with money and the Federal Reserve, a few sentences gained my attention. �Did the depression start in the United States and spread abroad? Did forces emanating from abroad convert what might have been a mild recession in the United States, into a severe one? In one respect, the Federal Reserve has remained consistent throughout. It blames all problems on external influences beyond its control, and takes credit for any favorable occurrences. It thereby continues to promote the myth that the private economy is unstable, while its behavior continues to document the reality that government is the major source of economic instability.�

The argument those sentences portray is whether or not the Federal Reserve acts responsibly. Given the enormous power it has, what are its motivations, and does its actions favor us the common folk?

My interpretation of those thoughts are, both the government and the Federal Reserve are guilty and demonstrate, the manipulation of our economy is their top priority. They almost act as if it�s their sworn duty. In the past decade we would have been better off if they applied their energy elsewhere.

Yet another sentence caused me to think about it. �It does its job well (Federal Reserve) in conjunction with moneys of the world.� A while back I was importing goods from overseas. Without warning, a decision was made to devalue the dollar. That is usually done to help corporate sell more over there. The result over here, my costs rose, and my anticipated profit became an assured loss. It might have benefited the large powerful corporations, it hurt this small struggling entrepreneur. It also hurt the average American, as the goods he is forced to buy from there because we don�t make them here ... rose in price. This is a perfect example of the catch twenty two we are being trapped in. We lose our industrial base, have to buy imported goods, those goods can rise in price when the dollar is devalued (tampered with) to help corporate ... and as this is going on government says it�s for our good. Crazy?

Tampering with the market place certainly reaps benefits for those directly participating in the game. Those practices are not due to bureaucratic incompetence as some would like you to think. Those practices are due to power�s outright swindling of the American public. For us to concentrate on the ineptness of our federal government as cause for market disruption, serves power quite well. Let the frontmen take the rap. As the frontmen visibly cave -- their affiliations unravel --those who really forced us on the road to nowhere (within the conspiracy of power) will eventually become more visible.

To conceal the truth related to our industrial demise, to conceal government�s underhanded involvement, the prime story being forced down our throats is ... our dilemma is the result of a weak global economy. Really! Hasn�t the multinational become the global economy? If this so called weak world is a problem, how come the stock market doesn�t know it? Daily, the market keeps breaking through the ceiling as our real wages, in terms of buying power, is in a melt down mode. So as the world turns, what�s in it for us? �A bridge to the future�?

Money is being manipulated in the trader�s market at the rate of a trillion dollars a day. That�s more than resides in all the financial institutions on a given day. With the aid of the �Chip� it moves with split second fury. As it jumps from computer to computer a shrinking amount is destined for long term industrial investment in the U.S.. Capitol investment in Japan is about twice that invested in the U.S. and growing more disproportionate. They haven�t thrown away their manufacturing base.

Recently, American Airline pilots went on strike and within minutes our President ordered them back to work. Was corporate unhappy? No way! Were the pilots unhappy? You bet! The ultimate tool that unions can bring to bear on power, was made null and void. It was a deliberate diminution of opportunity for labor to confront power on an even footing. Under such circumstances, how can it be possible for labor to make power realize ... both parties in negotiations must win something. This, by no means, is an example of �free exchange.� That was a gripe so clearly implicit in our �Declaration of Independence.�

Once upon a time we were the producers of a long list of the worlds� products. The list would have grown if that program was not tampered with. �Made in America� was a label of distinction. Once upon a time we were a motivated can do society not at the bottom of the world�s education ratings. Once upon a time the entire world clamored for our products, and the American worker was the better for it. Once upon a time the world held us in esteem.

Did we lose that prestigious position overnight because of the American workers� failings? Did the American worker become unproductive overnight? Nonsense! New and revised rules of how to govern, concocted behind closed doors, transcended our founding documents. Let that continue to happen and America will no longer be a country we can recognize being related to a dream ... �a dream we had a right to fully engage in.�

It�s ENOUGH WITH THE NUMBERS - �OK?�

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